Good luck to CanSat students

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet wishes good luck to all student teams participating in the 2016 CanSat…

Sentinel space testing

Technology image of the week: Sentinel-2B being lowered into Europe's largest vacuum chamber for testing

‘Floating Piers’ on Lake Iseo, Italy

The Sentinel-2A satellite captured creation of the ‘Floating Piers’ installation on Lake Iseo by the Bulgarian–American…

Sentinel-2B entering LSS

ESA’s Sentinel-2B Earth-observing satellite being lowered into Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, at the start of a…

First interview with Tim Peake back on Earth

This interview with ESA astronaut Tim Peake was recorded in Cologne, Germany, one day after his…

Sentinel-1A and -1B combined

This ‘interferogram’ combines a Sentinel-1A radar scan from 9 June 2016 over southern Romania with a…

Sensing Orion

A test version of the European Service Module at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio,…

Comet on 8 June 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera

OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 8 June 2016, when Rosetta was 29.7 km from the…

Tim’s first news conference back on Earth

The first news conference with ESA astronaut Tim Peake on return to Earth after spending 186…

Ariane 6

Ariane 6 is becoming a reality. Designed to be the workhorse for the coming decades to…